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The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Denuclearisation will only come when bridges have been built with Pyongyang and it feels firmly set on a new economic course Negotiations over the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula look set to resume . Sadly, they are unlikely to end soon. Talk of a "grand bargain" remains just that – talk. Trust between North Korea and the US, South Korea and Japan is almost non-existent. While...
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | yesterday
North Korea bring with them memories of 1966 but remain an unknown quantity at World Cup 2010.
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Madville Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
GOP U.S. House candidate Thad Wasson keeps the ideas coming: He extends his proposal for bear-hug diplomacy with Iran to include agricultural trade with North Korea . He also proposes the most serious federal deficit-cutting plan I've heard from anyone this year: withdraw from Kosovo, Italy, Japan, and Korea and cut the U.S. military budget by half . Wasson makes the interesting argument that other...
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Denver Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
A key U.N. committee is expressing serious concern at widespread reports of torture and other grave human-rights violations in North Korea.
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ZombieChatter.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Qualified as: Asia Group B runner-up Second World Cup appearance (last in 1966) Player to watch: Ahn Young-Hak Odds to win: 500 to 1 I thought this was noteworthy. A country that most consider evil will be in the World Cup. The last time they were in the cup was 1966, so it has been quite a [...] Related posts: Yoda For President My dad sent this to me today. A picture of... Hello world! Hello World....
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Washington Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
SEOUL -- With none of the tension presented by a rising China and a willful Japan, President Obama's visit to South Korea on Thursday was short, congenial in substance and splendid in form.
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Naval Open Source INTelligence (Free subscription) | yesterday
North Korea is running a global arms smuggling enterprise to finance its nuclear weapons program, a United Nations panel said in a report on sanctions imposed on the regime. “The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has established a highly sophisticated international network for the acquisition, marketing and sale of arms and military equipment,” said the report by a panel established...
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Worldfocus (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The Obama administration is trying tackle the thorny issue of North Korea and its nuclear program. To take a closer look at this issue, Leon Sigal of the Social Science Research Council in New York speaks with Daljit Dhaliwal. Sigal discusses the significance of Obama's announcement to send an envoy to North Korea next month. [...]
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Japan Times (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
SEOUL — Negotiations over the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula look set to resume. Sadly, they are unlikely to end soon. Talk of a "grand bargain" remains just that — talk. Trust between North Korea and the United States, South Korea and Japan is almost nonexistent. While all leaders — including North Korea's Kim Jong Il — remain committed to denuclearization...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
New York - The UN Security Council's trade sanctions against North Korea inflicted a sharp drop in business, but the country appeared to have eluded the arms embargo because of its sophisticated international network, a sanctions panel said Thursday....
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Michael Goldfarb - The Blog (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
At a joint press appearance with South Korean President Lee Yong-Ho earlier today, President Barack Obama used what the New York Times called a "stern tone" with North Korea. Obama's main objective is to bring an end to the Sisyphean...
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Democracy Resource Center Blog (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
URL: http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm'id=6370&l=1 . Source: International Crisis Group. This report examines current Chinese policy toward Pyongyang in the wake of North Korea’s latest round of provocations, including missile launches, the withdrawal from the Six-Party-Talks, and the 25 May nuclear test. These events, together with succession worries, drew out an unusually public,...
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Open Democracy (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Obama urges North Korea and Iran to change course On the final leg of his tour of East Asia, US President Barack Obama has used a joint press conference with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak to urge North Korea and Iran to change their nuclear stances or face sanctions in the future. read more
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korean Buddhist monks headed to North Korea on Saturday for a joint ceremony with monks there, showing the countries continue civil exchange despite a bloody naval skirmish earlier this month.
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abdulruff | 04/06/2009
Nuclear Proliferation: An Unflinching North Korea - By Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal ****** Nuclear proliferation is being caused by literally every nuclear power in the world in one way or the other. Today North Korea and Iran are seen by USA and its allies as posing threat to them and world peace. But nuclear ambitions of these two powers are admitted by the UNSC as normal. USA has repeatedly warned against...
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